§ MR. ROBERT AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)T beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the resolution passed by the priests of the Deanery of Westport on the 7th instant, requesting the Government to provide compulsory purchase powers for the acquisition of the waste lands in the congested districts of the Westport Union for migratory purposes; and whether he will make provision for such a clause in the coming Land Bill, or see that such powers be given to the Congested Districts Board?
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELANDAttention has been drawn to the Resolution referred to, but I can give no undertaking of the nature suggested in the second paragraph to introduce the Measure.